keli

Having just got a Mac, this is the only Lotro related thing I can't do (populate and maintain Songbook). What's needed is the .hta or standalone .exe file to be made available in Java. How difficult this might be, I have no idea.

Chiran

Yes, it's a bit of a shame. The script itself is fairly easy to port to Java I believe. Problem is how the directories and such resources are handled in a Mac environment of Lotro. And unfortunately I cannot test those out myself for the moment.

-Chiran

Arnhor

Hi,

as you may have noticed there were some daylight saving time issues with my "WAN Songbook Filler" (everything was re-read at the start and the end of daylight saving time). Version 1.2 should have avoided this by using UTC time zone generally, but it doesn't seem to be that easy... Linux servers store file modification time together with time zones, WebDAV servers deliver GMT or local time (together with time zone information or not), WebDAV clients (and Windows itself) add or subtract their local time zone to or from the delivered time... and all this even depends on DST active (or not) by the time of uploading and/or downloading! There are just too many pieces of software involved in this process so that you can get unpredictable results anyway.

So I gave up finding a solution for managing the correct time zone by all means, but installed a checkbox in the program which treats an exact 1-hour offset as "same time". Granted, this may lead to miss a changed file if it was modified exactly one hour (to the second!) after the last write, but I think this won't happen very often – and if you're suspicious about it, just un-check the new "Ignore" checkbox.

(If you just use a local drive instead of a WebDAV server, the impact of re-reading everything might not be annoying twice a year anyway.)

You can download the new version 1.3 as always from http://lotro.hanft.de/wansongbookfiller/

-Arnhor

PS: There's still that "European Bug" that music instrument slots are stored as "[1,000000] = 0,000000" in the SongbookSettings.plugindata file when leaving the game. In order to reload Songbook, you have to take Notepad and "search and replace" all ",0000" by ".0000"...

Arnhor

And yet another bugfix to WANSongBookFiller: Until version 1.3, you couldn't browse through folders where no ABC files were located at all. From version 1.4 on, all "in-between" folders down to a sub-sub-sub...folder are now included so that you can browse to a song called "sub1/sub2/sub3/sub4/mysong.abc" even if sub1/2/3 are completely empty. You can download v1.4 as usual from http://lotro.hanft.de/wansongbookfiller/

Thanks to "The Just Abby's" for the bug report

-Arnhor

lexington

i got the plugin running and everything is great, except i can't build the library. I've tried changing the .hta to .html, which did open some script/webpage on safari that had a "generate library" button in it - but when i click it, nothing happens. it just won't build the library no matter how many times i click on it, or if i run LOTRo before/after clicking.

Bronrandir

I installed everything correctly and was using it and it was working perfectly had about 43 songs loaded, then i downloaded some more songs and ran the library builder to load the new songs and it only loaded a total of 13 of my 50 files. I unistalled songbook and reinstalled and still only generated 13 files.... can some one please help me figure out what ive done wrong?

Bron

Fizzle

Hi bron,

I had similar issues when filenames contained specialchars and blanks. So I suggest checking the filenames.

btw...the songs to DL aber most likly crap. Try to build your own files.
Not that easy if you are new to midi, abc and playing music in gemeral.
But it's worth the effort.

cheers
Fizzle of Belegaer

Chiran

Unfortunately I cannot support Mac clients since the script and file paths are OS specific. I guess it might be possible to get it to work under Wine with some tinkering.

-Chiran

Chiran

Yes, that would be my first guess as well.

-Chiran

Ithildu

Hey Chiran,
I hope this is the right place to aks my question:
I downloaded the songbook when I still played LOTRO in german and it worked great. Later I decided to switch the game to english and as I did, this issue occured: "...gs Online\Plugins\Chiran\Songbook\SettingsWindow.lua: 139: attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'ToggleOpacity' (a nil value)"
And I couldn't use the Songbbok anymore. When I switch the game to german again, it works like id did before.
So I loaded the plugin again, I build the library again and all that stuff, when the game was in english, but it didn't work. What can I do to make the songbbok work again? Shall I reinstall it? But don't I have the same problem then the other way round with the german game?

(I hope no one asked this already, I didn't found something like that...)

But apart from that the songbook is amazing, thanks a lot for making it!!

Chiran

Hi there,

I think it should work if you switch the language, then delete the following file (while out of game):
\The Lord of the Rings Online\PluginData\<lotrouser>\AllServers\SongbookS ettings.plugindata

That should reset the plugin settings. I hope it works!

-Chiran

Skald70

I am totally new to plugins and am having some difficulty getting this to work.

I've save song files (as .txt files based on I can /music then /play <song name> in the game with .txt files but not with .abc files) in my C:/<username>/My Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/Music folder.

I downloaded the songbook plugin and unzipped it to C:/<username>/My Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/Plugins folder and then ran the songbookfiller.exe file. It says that it loaded the correct number of songs I have in my music folder.

However, it saved a data file in C:/<username>/My Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/Plugins/<username>/All Servers folder not just the Plugins folder.

Then when I log into the game and type /plugins refresh into the chat window it says that I have 0 plugins available. I tried to type /plugins load songbook and it gives me the same message.

I have even tried to unzip the songbook file into C:/<username>/My Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/Plugins/<username>/All Servers folder and still get the same message.

Any ideas?

Thurallor

I just installed it and it worked for me. Although I have .abc files, not .txt files.

You need to be sure to unzip it so the "Chiran" folder is directly inside the "Plugins" folder:
C:/<username>/My Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/Plugins/Chiran/Songbook/...

Are you sure it wasn't /My Documents/The Lord of the Rings Online/PluginData/<username>/All Servers?

There shouldn't be a <username> folder inside the Plugins folder.

Instead of using the /plugins chat command, I recommend you use the built-in Plugin Manager. You can access it from the main game menu ("^" at the bottom of the screen) by choosing "System" and then "Plugin Manager".

If the game can't see the plugin, then it is probably installed in the wrong location. You might want to use Plugin Compendium to do the installation for you.

zedrock

Hello Chiran,
Many of French users got a problem with two buttons that do not work :

- /voirprêt (AKA /readycheck)

- /débutmusique (AKA /playstart)

I find a quick soluce, but perhaps you can coding this better.

i'm using UTF.lua in LotRO Tools & Utilities for Developers Section here.

So :
- I copied file UTF.lua in \Chiran\Songbook\
- In file SongbookLang.lua, i do :

* Fix the old line 138 as :
Strings["cmd_ready"] = FromUTF8("/voirprêt");

* Fix the old line 139 as :
Strings["cmd_start"] = FromUTF8("/débutmusique");

* Then Add in first line :
import "Chiran.Songbook.UTF"; -- needed for French client. Using FromUTF8
-- function for 2 songbook buttons

Seems that works fine now

I hope this may be useful for future version.

Best regards

Zed'

avariel001

i keep getting this error when i try to search a song : ...gs Online\Plugins\Chiran\Songbook\SongbookWindow.lua: 1152: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)

Ive installed it sevral different ways but all to the same error...also i cannot load it i always get this error "unable to load songbook" please help as im pulling my hair out (if i had any)